tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post4885154271397383963..comments2023-12-23T05:14:34.273-05:00Comments on Wit's End: Cherry Blossom Festival and Baby's Chocolate DietGail Zawackihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-63839211264584731722011-04-08T10:01:00.308-04:002011-04-08T10:01:00.308-04:00Yeah, I was watching the Masters for a while as we...Yeah, I was watching the Masters for a while as well, PLovering. What was also prominent was the filth in the air. The Southeast over the last several decades has become filthy. This environment isn't intended for population concentration and industry beyond a certain threshold. It's like anywhere else, including Japan. Population overshoot. Living not only beyond our means, but also living a lifestyle that is an abomination, and don't think the irony of Golf isn't lost on me. I don't watch it, or play it any longer, but The Masters is hard to leave behind.<br /><br />I spoke about how Japan was a microcosm of our macrocosmic ecological problem, and a poster on another forum called me a "dumb cunt." I put that in quotes because it's a terrible thing to say and it hurts my ears. I said this back.<br /><br /><i>That is an extremely horrible word to use, and an insult to women everywhere. It’s speaks volumes to your character. You advocate violence and you use a horrible word to describe the beauty of a woman to denigrate someone.</i><br /><br />This is what I said about Japan.<br /><br /><i>Japan is a prime example of everything’s that’s wrong with this system. There are approximately 100 million people situated on that small Island chain living a highly materialistic lifestyle of consumerism</i><br /><br />This is what the misogynist said:<br /><br /><i>Way late to respond but just wanted to deliver a virtual broken nose to this dumb cunt.</i>Morocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-55966089781565305042011-04-08T00:24:55.694-04:002011-04-08T00:24:55.694-04:00Watching the Masters Golf Tournament today, I saw ...Watching the Masters Golf Tournament today, I saw not one shot of the famous azalea flower beds. In fact, the TV seem to be narrowly focused on everything but the flowers and dogwoods. <br /><br />Hope I'm wrong, but Gail's cherry trees pics (above) got me thinking, maybe not.PLoveringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04027992777731735792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-32533682002735621552011-04-07T13:13:23.291-04:002011-04-07T13:13:23.291-04:00Thank you, Gail for that link to another part of y...Thank you, Gail for that link to another part of your blog that mentions how Fractals and Nature seem to share a common architecture.<br /><br />I was thinking further about your Ex's tree, and this song came to mind, especially when you consider the uses to which that "tree" was ultimately put.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zvjiUQ-9QMorocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-16321605657061221572011-04-07T11:47:39.747-04:002011-04-07T11:47:39.747-04:00Great link!!
scroll to the last picture here
htt...Great link!!<br /><br />scroll to the last picture here<br /><br />http://witsendnj.blogspot.com/2009/11/shifting-baselines-redux.htmlGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-29638987916149293142011-04-07T11:11:54.983-04:002011-04-07T11:11:54.983-04:00Oh Gail, if only the Ex could develop an Algorithm...Oh Gail, if only the Ex could develop an Algorithm to solve the problem(s) we are discussing here, instead of enabling for greater server capacity, speed and effectiveness.<br /><br />Of course, maybe we're just a vastly advanced computer program/simulation ourselves, and the reality in which we live. Some have postulated just that, and something that I would have thought was preposterous thirty years prior, now appears plausible and somewhat probable.<br /><br />http://psychedelicjunction.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-our-world-computer-simulation.html<br /><br />But my favorite of all, and a field that has not received enough attention, is Fractals and its implications.Morocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-73333234060332678282011-04-07T10:37:55.716-04:002011-04-07T10:37:55.716-04:00Ha! That made me think of how often shapes are mi...Ha! That made me think of how often shapes are mirrored and replicated across species and even in the realms of physics and chemistry and geology...then along those lines, believe it or not, I suddenly remembered ex-husband's claim to fame...just google tarjan and tree! In fact now I recall many years ago, drawing a tree silhouette for the cover of one of his papers.<br /><br />just...bizarre!Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-20393014856941994262011-04-07T10:05:05.817-04:002011-04-07T10:05:05.817-04:00The tree that looks like a face eerily looks like ...The tree that looks like a face eerily looks like this tree...from the Wizard of Oz. Fact meets fiction, or vice versa.<br /><br />http://filmfanatic.org/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Tree.JPGMorocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-40198028316863147652011-04-07T09:33:47.037-04:002011-04-07T09:33:47.037-04:00I suppose I should take that as a call to shut my ...I suppose I should take that as a call to shut my face. Alright, I'll shut my mouth and mind my own business. NOT!<br /><br />Maybe, Clive, it's because Gail has been so adroit and comprehensive in her coverage of the issue, that there's not much more one can add, except a pinch of salt, or pepper, or their own observations and thoughts as to something mentioned. Her posts are chock full of goodies that a comment couldn't possibly cover the magnitude.<br /><br />There's no need to be dismissive and marginalizing to people who are reaching out and sharing and acknowledging. If you feel comments detract, or distract, why do you bother to read them and comment about them?Morocco Bamanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-8864693757648298132011-04-06T21:46:33.501-04:002011-04-06T21:46:33.501-04:00No, not the last post Gail. Here is one coming in ...No, not the last post Gail. Here is one coming in from the other side of the world.<br />Strange how so often in the comments-after-the-article, some fairly minor point is picked up, and the vast majority of the postings focus on that point. Thereby really ignoring the main thrust of the article. In this case, the main trust is really scary, no matter how one might nit-pick.<br />Scary in what is happening, scary in the prognosis, and scary in the denial that you have met so much.<br />Perhaps we need to feel things in our hearts, rather than our petty little minds.<br />Travelled by bus yesterday, almost the whole length of the North Island here in New Zealand. As we have discussed, no trace of die back, no sign of all the horrible symptoms that you describe. Seems the Ozone pollution is not so great here, assuming your diagnosis is correct. I still have not enquired about that with the "authorities".<br />Seeing all the indescribably wonderful trees yesterday, the European imports touched by Autumn, the natives green, verdant, - even the pine plantations looking so rich – it is hard, if not impossible to imagine a world without them. I really hope “you are wrong”.<br />But somehow I doubt it.<br />Thank you for all your hard work<br />Clive<br /><br />(posted by MOI as blogger isn't allowing comments from overseas.)Gail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-46827632422437359222011-04-06T18:42:44.047-04:002011-04-06T18:42:44.047-04:00Hi Morocco Bama. Of course climate change predict...Hi Morocco Bama. Of course climate change predicts more extreme storms and that is exactly what we are seeing. In addition to heavier precipitation, as some places heat more than others that will make for wilder differences in air pressure. So certainly we can expect more trees downed from higher winds.<br /><br />But it's also a fact that dead trees are more like to lose branches or blow over, and also that ozone exposed trees allocate more production to shoot growth than roots, making them top-heavy and not as well anchored.<br /><br />It is only anecdotal but there seems to have been a spike in incidents of people being killed by falling trees - and by no means always during storms. Joggers in Central Park and Philadelphia have been killed in fine weather.<br /><br />I hope if you have any trees that would threaten your home you have them removed! I have some that could reach my house with their highest branches, but none left where the trunks would impact (I hope - unless they blow sideways or get picked up and thrown by a tornado).<br /><br />I know what you mean about the world sounding silent but I had taken that to be the absence of all the little rustlings and calls of bugs and birds and other critters. I will have to think about the wind.<br /><br />Meanwhile you and your family stay safe.<br /><br />GailGail Zawackihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01800944469843206253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5549306427964459740.post-36093332282929496332011-04-06T16:11:28.682-04:002011-04-06T16:11:28.682-04:00I experienced that storm the other night here in A...I experienced that storm the other night here in Atlanta. I have been here nine years now, and never have I felt like I did the other night. It woke me up around midnight, or shortly thereafter. The energy and violence was tremendous. I could not get back to sleep, it felt as though the house was going to rip apart at any moment. I came very close to gathering up my son who was also on the North side of the house and taking him to the Southeast side away from the force of the wind so he wouldn't get hit by a blown out window.<br /><br />My wife and I have observed that the winds in the past couple of years, when they do blow, blow with tremendous vigor and intensity. Then when they're not, it's eerily still, as though it's another planet with no wind. There's seldom any in between any longer. Then, I ran across this, and I wonder if this is the sort of thing that happens as part of the desertification process. Perhaps, we are marching onward into desertification, and these winds are a precursor to the sandstorms to come.<br /><br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110328-earth-storms-winds-global-warming-science-environment/<br /><br /><i>The world has gotten stormier over the past two decades—and the reason is a mystery, a new study says.<br /><br />In the past 20 years, winds have picked up around 5 percent on average.<br /><br />Extremely strong winds caused by storms have increased even faster, jumping 10 percent over 20 years, according to the new analysis of global satellite data.<br /><br />The study, the first to look at wind speeds across such a large swath of the planet, bolsters some earlier findings, according to study leader Ian Young, of the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia.<br /><br />"Some regional studies had found similar results, so we suspected there may be an increasing trend," Young said.</i>Morocco Bamanoreply@blogger.com